patgco22

@patgco22 (35)

South Africa • Age 61

Joined myLot 13 years ago

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Do you like rainy days?

Oldsix691418 @Oldsix691418 (3872) • China 16 Apr 11

I don't like raining for some days in a row,it's very inconvenient for us all.But sometimes I really like it because I can have more time to do myLotting. This morning I'm going to do some weeding in my small orchard,but after...

enjoy life

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patgco22 for us who are staying in the villages rain is good. when we are doing our own gardens,ploughing on the mealie-fields and grow vegetables rain is needed. Yaa you can say that is its making life inconvinient sometimes, because during week-end we planned to...

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Do you mind your birthday very much?

Oldsix691418 @Oldsix691418 (3872) • China 17 Apr 11

As a common people,I don't seriously remember my birthday.Many times when my birthday came,I wasn't aware of it until my son or my wife told me. This morning my wife left home for her online community party.But she...

life

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patgco22 I do not think that I do take it seriously as I always forget about my birthday, may be is because I was never raised by the parents that was always thinking of it. Please do not take me wrongly,but sometimes other things happen because of how u were raised....

19 Apr 11

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When could you earn 10 dollars since you had been a myLotter?

Oldsix691418 @Oldsix691418 (3872) • China 16 Apr 11

I'm afraid I must be one of the most unsuccessful myLotters because I have just earned only 9.99 dollars so far!But 4 months have already passed! Here at myLot what I usually do is only starting...

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patgco22 I am almost the same as you. I have no idea when somebody needs to earn, maybe I read the instruction wrongly or there is something else. The time is the most limited as a result there is no time to even read the discussions or response. maybe somebody must...

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What were you the most afraid of when you were young?

Oldsix691418 @Oldsix691418 (3872) • China 1 Apr 11

Before i began my school life,i usually went out with my elder brother playing with our playmates. At a time when we passed by a neighbour's doorway,we saw some big geese inside.we tried to come over to have a look,but the geese...

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patgco22 I never thought that one day I will be afraid of thunder,or I was not thinking that I am afraid of it until some years back. When I was young,age of 10,11, when the thunder is about to start far I used to go to bed and sleep until is gone then the rainbow came...

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Having a Pity Party

ANTIQUELADY @ANTIQUELADY (36440) • United States 26 Mar 11

Good morning all, i don't usually say much about my health, have never liked to grunt, lol. I went to the doctor thurs. & got some bad news. My health is not good & i have been using a walking stick for a long time. He ask me...

walker

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patgco22 I do not have any one I know having what you have, but for me is to say to be grateful that you are still walking irrespective of what you are using, you can do other things on your own because other people depends to others and maybe others are so selfish to...

28 Mar 11

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Do you have a television in your bedroom?

MAllen400 @MAllen400 (829) 29 Oct 10

Do you have a television set in your bedroom? When my children were living at home they all had a television in their room. It was okay until you could get all these music channels and they would have these on while we were trying...

television

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patgco22 I do have a television in my room and lounge. I wanted to have a TV in my room for a very long time because I used to come home very tired wanted just to ly down in my bed rather than sitting in a lounge where my kids are or wanted to watch something else...

28 Mar 11

Do you drink water as soon as getting up?

Oldsix691418 @Oldsix691418 (3872) • China 27 Mar 11

I don't like drinking tea,so i always drink boiled water before or after meals,especially when i get up in the morning,the first important thing that i have to do is to drink a mug of warm boiled water(not pure water or tap...

life

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patgco22 Fortunately I do drink water a lot, but not boiled water. I like water very much as a result each and every office I visit first thing when I enter is to ask a glass of water to drink. I heard about that phrase"drinking a lot of water help our body", if you...

28 Mar 11

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Do you have enough free time ?

sincere4frdship @sincere4frdship (2228) • India 23 Mar 11

Well... Many times I think about me and get different answer in same day. Like when I stay in office and wait for some work to get completed by other for mine role to come then I think I have too much time in my life... But...

life

time

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patgco22 enough of free time being created by you, a person who want to utilise it. When you are busy person irrespective of what makes you busy but make time for each and every thing you want to do. If I plan to do three things in one day, I plan how to achieve those...

24 Mar 11

Work is Over

p1kef1sh @p1kef1sh (45681) 17 Mar 11

My working week is over. I did an extra long day today and got all the work done. So tomorrow I shall do?... What shall I do?

a day off

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patgco22 Thanx its friday, to us as South African its a holiday on Monday,meaning its a long week-end. No More stress for work,until Tuesday, abusing mysef for spring cleaning my house,enjoying myself and my family, can you enjoy yourself and please ignore any one who...

18 Mar 11

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Do you enjoy eating while meeting?

Ifamous @ifa225 (14463) • Indonesia 16 Mar 11

i often see that many workers are having a meeting in lunch. i wonder how they can enjoy their food in the middle of meeting. i don't think i can...how about you?

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patgco22 Its not normal this way, what I usually see is, when there is any meeting, in the morning, its tea and then doing all the talking, lunch time, everybody just have their lunch but no talking and even this specific time, no one is discussing any thing until...

17 Mar 11

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What do you do if you cannot have electricity?

Oldsix691418 @Oldsix691418 (3872) • China 8 Mar 11

If there's electricity cut,there will be more neighbors chatting at the doorway,and I can meet more walkers along the road,for they have nothing to do after supper. There was no electricity before I got up this morning,and the...

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patgco22 generators are ones that take a place of electricity in Our Country if we do not have, but its not free everyone needs to buy for his/her household. But you are talking in connection with net, but if we can talk about household use, we are using parafin for...

8 Mar 11

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Waiting

GreenMoo @GreenMoo (11834) 6 Mar 11

I hate waiting for things. I tend to read a book if I'm waiting and normally carry one in my bag for just such times, but today I'm just not in the mood so I'm pottering around on the net instead. I have a friend who never goes...

reading

waiting

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patgco22 I am one of those who does not like waiting, time to me is consuming, but people who believes in horoscopes said is because I am VIRGO. Waiting is killing me, I do not want any one who says to me at such such time will meet and she/he is not there I just give...

8 Mar 11

Why do I have to postpone my comments so long?

Oldsix691418 @Oldsix691418 (3872) • China 7 Mar 11

Hi,all my friends!Since I became one of the myLotters,I've come here as long as I have time,even before the several minutes to go to work.But all because of my bad English,I have to take notes before post the comments for your...

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patgco22 Fortunately I am a bit like you, I am a Xhosa(One of South African Languages)meaning English is not my language. But because we need to communicate with everybody in the world our country(SA)takes english as the International language, meaning communication...

8 Mar 11

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The picked up money

Oldsix691418 @Oldsix691418 (3872) • China 5 Mar 11

I'm not young now,all those past years I rarely picked up money that someone left. When I was a pupil,I picked up just 0.20 yuan(rmb),I was almost overpleased,then bought two dried persimmons.When I was in highschool,some day I...

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patgco22 Only my daughter who came across with a plastic bag containing some papers early in the morning when she was going to school next to the shopping mall. No one on the front of her except the other kids that were following to school.She came home and gave the...

8 Mar 11

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Do you have cobbles to view and admire at home?

Oldsix691418 @Oldsix691418 (3872) • China 5 Mar 11

In my hometown some people pick up beautiful cobbles for themselves to view and admire,or to sell them. They usually choose the stones that their shape or veins are unique from others.If you have enough discerning ability,you can...

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patgco22 no idea what cobbles are, wish to see even if its a picture

8 Mar 11

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What do you do to enjoy life? What makes life enoyable to you?

writersedge @writersedge (22563) • United States 28 Feb 11

For me, Mylot, dancing, singing, any physical movement, meditation, telling jokes, good food, goood friends, seeing new places, visiting old places, doing crafts, talking to friends and relatives, so many things. What makes it...

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patgco22 there are many ways to enjoy life, to be happy at work, home, visiting places,having friends and others. I do enjoy life by being with people whom I love, my kids, my men, go and visiting the villages where you meet old friends whom you were with at...

1 Mar 11

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Have you ever worried about life in the future?

Polang @tkonlinevn (6438) • Vietnam 25 Feb 11

Life is beautiful. But I sometimes feel worry about my life in the future. I scare that I can't buy an own house. I can't earn enough to feed my children. I scare poor, I scare illness etc... How are you? Have you ever worried...

future

life

scare

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patgco22 Life is beautiful so please do not traumitised yourself, live it the fullest. When I got a first baby I was thinking of where am I going to get the money to feed my baby as her father was not supportive, to take care of her, she used to cry, and I used to...

1 Mar 11

How many phone numbers do you know by heart?

jillhill @jillhill (37354) • United States 23 Feb 11

Well I was going to call my sister the other day on my home phone...picked up the phone and dialed her number. Its the only number I know without looking it up as all the numbers are programed into my cell phone. So when I want to...

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patgco22 Most of the numbers I know by heart, but that does not help when you are in an emergency as you forgot even yours. A taxi hit my last born daughter when I was attending a afternoon classes,when I came back from my lectures,I was told that a taxi hit my baby, I...

25 Feb 11

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Do you have your own small garden?

Oldsix691418 @Oldsix691418 (3872) • China 17 Feb 11

On the internet,there are fictitious gardens for you to grow vegetables or fruit.But around my father's home,I have a true one. More than 4 years ago,I got nearly 3 acres of cane fields from my pa.Then I planted over 300 young...

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patgco22 The life we are living is so expensive and it needs some one to spend carefully, if you do have a house that has got a space whereby you can develop a garden please use it. I do have a vetetable garden, as a result of that garden I do not buy every vegetable....

18 Feb 11

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So you think your life is miserable..

staria @staria (2780) • Philippines 17 Feb 11

I used to think sometimes that my life is miserable. Everyday, you have to think about the bills, the rent, buying milk and diapers for the baby and how to earn extra money. But sometimes when I watch the TV and see other...

life

problems

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patgco22 You say life is miserable once everything goes wrong, like you do not socialise because you do not have a reason to,staying at home on week-ends, just go to work in the morning and come back home five days a week. you always ask what have you done to whom or...

18 Feb 11

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